Personally I want both but if we had to choose I want the needle rifle to return. I loved unicorning people (headshoting) it was a good gun but if it was anything like the Needler in H4, it needs to be tuned a lot, If there’s no loadout system in H5G then it shouldn’t be a problem to have it. Thoughts??
I’d choose the Carbine purely because it’s green but I honestly don’t see any point in not bringing both of them back.
The CC’s a medium range rifle.
The NR’s a long range rifle.
They occupy different niches. It’s about the same as asking whether I want the SMG or Magnum back in Halo 5.
Why not both? So as long as theres no niche fusing its perfectly fine to have both.
I lke being able to spawn with a rifle of my choice and be effective with whatever i choose. So as long as im playing social variety is the goal.
I’d rather not see the needle rifle return. The carbine is enough in my opinion.
Too many needle based weapons dilutes the uniqueness of the original Needler.
While it sounds nice just to say both, the sandbox is really in need of some trimming.
It is filled with too many functional clones. They are not inherently bad, but they should be a low priority.
With that in mind I would ditch the DMR and the Carbine. Although I prefer the DMR both functionally and aesthetically, the BR has a larger fanbase. So the BR would fill the utility niche while the Needle Rifle would fill the ‘long range’ niche.
Both the UNSC and the Covenant get a precision rifle, but we don’t have that extra redundancy. Theoretically we could have Carbine and DMR instead, it doesn’t really matter.
Needle Rifle only.
I like both so, why not both.
Both! I love the Carbine! I don’t hate the Needle Rifle, and having both would be sweet.
I’d rather the carbine stay, as much as I like the needle rifle it seems too similar to the good ol’ carbine IMO 
Personally it’s between the DMR and Needle Rifle because the two of them are so similar, if one of them returns then I don’t see the point of the other one.
Just to note, I feel like Halo 4 would have been better off with br/Carbine and dmr/ NR instead of some lame Light Rifle. I wonder how the kill time and Rof would be for NR though.
> Too many needle based weapons dilutes the uniqueness of the original Needler.
It could also be said that not making more Needle based weapons is wasting the potential they hold.
A mounted Needle turret would sure as hell be a lot more useful, fun, unique and interesting than the current Covenant plasma turret.
I’m fine if either of the two is in. Would be okay if both are in though redundant, would hate it if the covenant doesn’t atleast have any precision weapon.
> > Too many needle based weapons dilutes the uniqueness of the original Needler.
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> A mounted Needle turret would sure as hell be a lot more useful, fun, unique and interesting than the current Covenant plasma turret.
Heh, I could see my self rocking Elites using that on Legendary, Simple and Fun just like Halo is.
Even though I kind of agree with Randy, I still prefer having this on the sandbox. Interested to see how the design would look like.
Said this in another thread, Carbine, BR, N’Rifle and DMR. With well designed maps to make it all work well enough.